“The tastiest book this season and for seasons to come is Warren Lehrer’s latest tour de force. (FRENCH FRIES) is a remarkable accomplishment. Each page becomes theater and you are the voyeur...”
Judith Hoffberg, High Performance
“FRENCH FRIES, like all of Mr. Lehrer’s work is mostly about his continuing efforts to bring written and spoken language together.... (Lehrer) has pursued the anatomically challenging goal of helping the eye to hear and the ear to see...”
Julie Lasky, The New York Times Book Review
“In FRENCH FRIES, with Dennis Bernstein, Lehrer creates a rich soundscape in the reader’s imagination... correlating the rhythm of language to the way the mind works... They explore the rich dissonance of sound and life surrounding each of us... challenging the line between life and art...”
Nancy Soloman, Afterimage
“French Fries’ active and colorful pages are a triumph.... How much of what is audible can be made visible? This book asks and shows us how to push our habitual limits... and stretch our literacy...”
Betsy Davids, Fine Print
“FRENCH FRIES is a sumptuous book... Dialogue and ambience leave the page straight into the imagination... A marvel and a treasure...” Lightworks
“Warren Lehrer and Dennis Bernstein’s play-cum book FRENCH FRIES is a wonderful multi-media creation, using the potato as metaphor... The book itself is a tasteful riot of design, color and typography...”
David Becker, Print Collector’s Newsletter
“FRENCH FRIES co-authored with Dennis Bernstein and Warren Lehrer and designed by Lehrer is one of the most fascinating books I have ever seen or read... The pages throb with energy and graphic vitality... FRENCH FRIES proves that the book can be a movie, an existential feast, and a pastiche of literature and art...”
Philip Meggs, AIGA Journal (from feature on Lehrer, “An Oracle of the 21st-Century Book”)
(In FRENCH FRIES), Bernstein and Lehrer rival George Bernard Shaw not only in describing the cast together with the setting but in providing precise stage directions throughout. The authors have left nothing to chance in initiating and alerting their readers/spectators... Bernstein and Lehrer have not merely presented us with a play... but with a remarkably sophisticated artist’s book.”
Renée Riese Hubert & Judd D. Hubert, The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists’ Books
“FRENCH FRIES is a delicious, outrageous, funny, funky, sad, sometimes lyrical, warm weird, mad, off the wall, on target, right on the mark, crazy, digestible, hilarious, word-laden book. I loved it.”
Collette Inez, writer
“Perhaps the biggest leap came (in my life as a book collector) when attracted by a four line description in a catalogue, I ordered a copy of Dennis Bernstein’s and Warren Lehrer’s FRENCH FRIES) ... Never had I seen a book like it, nor have I since... Each page is a riot of homespun wisdom and raucous exchanges, overlapping life’s daily events... FRENCH FRIES has also been my wisest investment, as I have watched the book increase tenfold in value...”
Rose M. Glennon, Bookways
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